Letter to Congressman

Congressman McNerney,

 

I am writing you today to ask that you reject the Waxman-Markey climate change bill (currently in the Energy and Commerce committee) should it come to the House floor.  According to an analysis by the Heritage Society this bill will saddle the American economy with a load it cannot handle and will lead to lost jobs, higher taxes, greater national debt, and inflation.  The average family will see increases in electric and gasoline costs at a time when the government should be reducing the burden on the American taxpayer. 

 

I know you are committed to clean energy and preserving our environment for future generations.  I agree that we need to invest in the development alternative energy sources, but we have to do it with some common sense. 

 

We simply cannot afford to cap energy production and tax our energy producers at a time when our economy is hanging in the balance.  Cap and Trade is a recipe for disaster and you need to tell your fellow  congressmen and women that this is not the solution we need at this time.

 

I am aware that alternative energy is an issue that has great significance to you and your business ventures.  I urge you to recuse yourself from a vote if you have any potential conflict of interest or stand to benefit in any way from the passage of this bill. 

 

Please find it within yourself to let the free market move America to a clean energy economy and resist the temptation to try and legislate a solution to the controversial climate change issue. 

 

Sincerely,

 

-Me

Flying over Normandy

Brave enough to storm the beaches,
To save the world from the sons of bitches.
Yet now portrayed as the global evil,the blood of America brings your riches.

When our allies needed is to defend their lands and free their people, we rose up and sacrificed our blood and treasure to defeat tyranny and despotism. Flying over the beaches where so many young men suffered and sacrificed makes me proud. Flying over lands that now castigate is for confronting the modern challenges to liberty and freedom makes me sick. Sometimes you have to be willing to wage war to do what is right. That doesn't make us an imperialist nation. It makes us the defenders of liberty surrounded by ignorant or cowardice fools. I suspect time will come when the fools once again need is to bail their ass out.

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Newspaper troubles

Still in London airport. Took a look at the newsstand and I noticed that the papers have topless women in them like it is no big deal. I think it is high time for tribune and Hearst to get with it and start showing some boobies.

First time in London

I am sitting in London Heathrow airport right now eating breakfast and having an espresso. It really makes me realize how great it would be to get to visit Europe for recreation. As it stands I will not leave the airport here on my way to Germany. Someday I want to check out England France and Italy.

Nice Cover Song

China Economy Suffering

Here is an article about rising unemployment in China. 

 

Bottom line:

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Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong believed that if the party lost the support of the peasants it would lose control of China. Mindful of that, the government had set a goal of 8 percent growth this year, fearing less would cause such high unemployment it would result in mass civil unrest.

That hasn't happened yet, but after two decades of economic growth, the global downturn is seen as the most serious test for the ruling Communist party in a generation.

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Eventually the only thinkg that will sustain China’s economy will be war.

 

Random thouight about the Police lyrics

I had a Police song in my mind the other day  and one of the lyrics  struck me as odd.  In “Can’t stand losing you,” Sting sings “you don’t ever want to see me again, and your brothers gonna kill me and he’s six feet ten.”

 

The odd part about that lyric is that Europeans generally refer to peoples height in metric, either meters or centimeters.   Maybe he did this because the metric system was adopted in Britain in 1965 and a man his age was accustomed to using feet and inches.  Or perhaps he was specifically targeting the US market.  Or perhaps he went with it because “your brothers gonna kill me and he’s 208 centimeters” doesn’t rhyme.